299 Women Who Shaped World History

Rachel Carson

Born: May 27, 1907, Springdale, Pennsylvania, U.S.Died: April 14, 1964, Silver Spring, Md. Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist, author of widely read books on ecological themes. Born in Springdale, Pennsylvania, and educated at the former Pennsylvania College for Women and Johns Hopkins University, she taught zoology at the University of Maryland from […]

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Virginia Apgar

Born: June 7, 1909, Westfield, New Jersey, U.S.Died: Aug. 7, 1974, New York Apgar was an American physician, anaesthesiologist, and medical researcher who developed the Apgar Score System, a method of evaluating an infant shortly after birth to assess its well-being and to determine if any immediate medical intervention is required.Apgar graduated from Mount Holyoke

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Yang Guifei

Died: 756, Mawei, Sichuan province, ChinaYang Guifei was famous concubine of Xuanzong, emperor of China’s Tang (T’ang) dynasty from 712 to 756. Daughter of a high official, Yang Guifei was originally the concubine of one of Xuanzong’s sons, but the emperor, who favoured large women, found her so attractive that in 745 he took her

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Zsuzsa Polgar

Born: April 19, 1969, Budapest, Hungary Zsuzsa Polgar is a Hungarian international grandmaster who won the women’s world chess championship in 1996 from Xie Jun of China. In 1999, Polgar was stripped of her title by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE; the international chess organization) for failing to agree to match conditions.At four years

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Judit Polgar

Born: July 23, 1976, Budapest, Hungary The youngest of three chess-playing sisters (see Zsuzsa Polgar). She became an international master at the age of 12 and the youngest international grandmaster in history at the age of 15 years and 4 months, eclipsing Bobby Fischer’s record by a month.Apart from her gold-medal-winning appearances for the Hungarian

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Mata Hari

Born: Aug 7, 1876, Leeuwarden, NetherlandsDied: Oct 15, 1917, Vincennes, near Paris, France Mata Hari, professional name of Gertrud Margarete Zelle (1876-1917), was a Dutch courtesan and alleged spy during World War I (1914-1918). Born in Leeuwarden and educated in a convent, she married Campbell MacLeod, a British-born captain of the Dutch army, when she

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Alice Marble

Born: Sept 28, 1913, Plumes county, California, U.S.Died: Dec 13, 1990, Palm Springs, California Alice Marble was an American tennis player and four-time winner of the singles title at the United States Nationals tournament (1936, 1938-1940), which became the U.S. Open in 1968. Marble was born in Plumas County, California and began competing in her

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